This cruise report is intended to serve as an outline of the
academic program and marine research conducted on ~he fifty-fifth
cruise of the research vessel Westward which took place between
26 November 1980 and 7 January 1981. Included are abstracts from
twenty-four student projects conducted and completed during the
cruise and preliminary results of oceanographic studies designed
by the chief scientist. Also reported here are data which are being
incorporated in the long-term studies of S.E.A. staff scientists and
other associated researchers.